Sturrup still hopes 2003 will be her ‘golden summer’

Motivated by a new sprinting technique her coach, Trevor Graham, calls “Maximum Velocity,” a healthy Sturrup found new inspiration and won the first three golden league 100 metres. Then the picture changed. White ran down the third-placed Sturrup in Berlin, and five days later, Gaines, who was second in Berlin, beat Sturrup in Zurich.

“It seems like now her acceleration is not as strong as it was in Rome,” said Graham, who coached both Sturrup and triple Olympic champion Marion Jones until Jones Left last year. “Maybe it’s because of the injury. She is experiencing a little bit of pain in the area where she injured the leg. “If you watch her race, one side (of her body) is dominating the other and she is drifting to the left. She is drifting all the way over to the other side of the lane, like she is going to run out of her lane,” Graham said in a telephone interview from Paris. (Reuters)